Vocab P2U5
Terms
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- requiem
- a musical composition or dirge for the repose of the dead
- solvency
- ability to meet all financial obligations
- necrology
- a list of persons who have died
- interment
- burial
- incriminate
- to involve or implicate in a crime
- docket
- a calendar of cases to be tried
- prerogative
- a right or privilege limited to one person or a select group of people
- presume
- to take it upon oneself to say or do something not ordinarily permissible
- debenture
- interest-bearing bond, voucher of indebtedness
- sentence
- to declare punishment upon a convicted one
- arrogate
- to seize boldly (ex: to ______ oneself a privilege or right)
- intestate
- without a will
- condolence
- formal expression of sympathy
- sepulcher
- a tomb somewhat less imposing than a mausoleum
- cremation
- reducing a body to ashes, often takes the place of burial
- actuate
- to put something into operation
- felony
- a major crime
- disparagement
- speaking in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle
- reimburse
- to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred
- encroach
- to intrude, trespass
- calumny
- defamation; the making of false or malicious misrepresentations, either written, spoken, or otherwise expressed
- defense attorney
- the person who responds to the prosecutor
- deficit
- the amount by which a sum of money falls short of what is expected, needed, or owed
- litigable
- subject to litigation
- acquit
- to clear from a charge or accusation
- obituary
- a death notice, usually in a newspaper, with a short biography
- arraign
- to call before a court, summon to trial
- activate
- to officially begin using something
- discrimination
- skill or prejudice in observing differences
- derogation
- disparaging or belittling
- commiseration
- strong sympathy expressed in a more personal, more intimate, and less formal or distant manner than condolence
- probate
- testing by court
- appreciation
- the adding in of price or value
- bourse
- stock exchange
- invade
- to move in like a hostile army, disregarding the rights of the victim
- Requiem Mass
- a religious service for the dead
- cenotaph
- a monument honoring a person buried elsewhere
- recrimination
- counteraccusation
- bursar
- a treasurer (of a college)
- alibi
- the claim of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed; an excuse (colloquially)
- verdict
- a statement by the jury which either acquits or convicts the defendant
- libel
- written or printed defamation
- actualize
- to carry something out
- debit
- a sum that one owes (in bookkeeping or bills)
- imprison
- to arrest
- counteract
- to act against something
- compassion
- pity or sympathy, with an urge to help in some way
- disinter
- to remove a body from the ground after burial
- exhume
- another word for disinter (to remove a body from the ground after burial)
- epitaph
- a tombstone inscription
- infringe
- to violate someone's rights or privileges, especially in a patent
- increment
- an increase (usually at specific intervals)
- detention
- the state of being detained/confined
- defamation
- false and malicious attacks on someone's character or reputation
- bequeath
- to donate specific parts of dead bodies for transplantation, as circumstances permit
- option
- a choice or a right of choice
- litigious
- inclined to dispute or disagree
- mausoleum
- a large tomb built above ground
- slander
- spoken defamation, false report, or damaging statements
- acquit
- to clear a person after his innocence is proved
- bereavement
- loss or desolation, especially by death
- exonerate
- to clear from blame or guilt
- disburse
- to pay out, expend (money)
- prosecutor
- the person who starts off by presenting the case to the jury
- sarcophagus
- a stone coffin, especially one with a carving or inscription on it
- absolve
- to free from guilt or blame or their consequences
- liabilities
- dangers one must face, especially sums of money that one must or may have to pay
- arraignment
- the calling before court; follows in the next day or two of imprisonment
- bail
- the bond guaranteeing a prisoner will return for trial
- fiscal
- financial
- litigation
- a lawsuit, or legal disputation
- exculpate
- to free a person from blame either because he was not guilty or because he was justified in what he did
- dirge
- a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief
- convict
- to prove or declare guilty of an offense
- actuary
- an insurance analyst an statistician
- bequeath
- to give or bestow in one's will
- allege
- to declare or assert